The group left the exercise after insisting that the results uploaded to the Independent National Electoral Commission portal must be shown before the exercise could continue.
“We have it on good authority that the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party have perfected plans to finally scuttle our democracy and throw the country into constitutional crises by surreptitiously obtaining exparte court orders stopping the announcement of the Presidential Election results which they fear have gone against them,” the statement reads.
“Nigerians would recall that the June 12, 1993 debacle that brought Nigeria to its knees and caused our country international isolation was precipitated by a court injunction stopping the announcement of Presidential Election results. A certain Association for Better Nigeria obtained the court order headed then by one Chief Authur Nzeribe.
“However, we wish to draw the attention of Nigerians, the Judiciary and the world to the provisions of section 84 of the Electoral Act, which prohibits the grant of injunctions to stop the holding of elections . The section states: ‘Nothing in this section shall empower the courts to stop the holding of primaries or general elections under this Act pending the determination of a suit.’
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